I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
is a collection of more than 200 of Ebert's most biting and
entertaining reviews of films receiving a mere star or less from the
only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. Ebert has no patience for
these atrocious movies and minces no words in skewering the offenders.
Witness: Armageddon * (1998) —The movie
is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the
human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get
in, it's worth more to get out. The Beverly Hillbillies* (1993)—Imagine
the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to
ninety-three minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you
have this movie. It's appalling. North no stars (1994)—I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated
the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be
entertained by it. Police Academy no stars (1984)—It's so bad, maybe
you should pool your money and draw straws and send one of the guys off
to rent it so that in the future, whenever you think you're sitting
through a bad comedy, he could shake his head, chuckle tolerantly, and
explain that you don't know what bad is. Dear God * (1996)—Dear God is
the kind of movie where you walk out repeating the title, but not with a smile. The movies reviewed within I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
are motion pictures you'll want to distance yourself from, but Roger
Ebert's creative and comical musings on those films make for a book no movie fan should miss. |
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